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Example sentences for "defect"

Lexicographically close words:
defeatist; defeats; defecate; defecated; defecation; defected; defection; defections; defective; defectiveness
  1. And this misconception is, I repeat, just the defect from which an analytic presentative realism suffers.

  2. It definitely states red as this case or instance of the law or process of color, and thus further overcomes the defect in subject-matter or data still left by conception.

  3. But these vices of extravagance and excessive devotion to fashion, of which I have spoken, are due, largely, to a still more radical defect in our social education.

  4. The defect was especially great in Nice, where few men knew how to be Italians, in consequence of the vicinity and influence of France, and still more the neglect of the government to provide a proper education for the people.

  5. That expedient incommoded them during the night, but did not produce the effect desired; the chief defect of the Republicans being the extreme scarcity of men.

  6. To those who object that Garrick was personally vain, it may suffice to point out that he was the first to allude to his own defect of stature.

  7. His chief defect lay in his intolerable conceit.

  8. There is surely some defect in the theory of equality in our society which makes domestic service to be shunned as if it were a disgrace.

  9. The analytic method in fiction is interesting, when used by a master of dissection, but it has this fatal defect in a novel--it destroys illusion.

  10. We have thought of remedying this last defect by putting the high screen in front of the singers, and close to the minister, as it was before.

  11. For the deception in the case of the correspondent who invents "news" is of the same quality as the lack of sincerity in a poem or in a prose fiction; there is a moral and probably a mental defect in both.

  12. The process which has been going on ever since the world began seems to have a defect in it; strength, vital power, somehow escapes.

  13. Desire is but the self-consciousness of defect striving to its own termination in perfect possession, through perfect knowledge of perfect being.

  14. When tenderness accompanies want of skill, the defect is great; but when tenderness and great skill meet together, such a surgeon is a brave accomplished man.

  15. A demur"; now called a demurrer, is when a defect or legal difficulty is discovered, which must first be settled by the judge before the action or proceedings can be carried on.

  16. Nonsuit"; the giving up a suit upon the discovery of some fatal error or defect in the cause.

  17. I should rather say, monsieur, a great defect in what is always a great people.

  18. To such causes was the failure to be attributed, not to any original defect in the gutta percha.

  19. Consequently the Cable was underrun for three miles, cut and tested; but no defect being found, it was again spliced.

  20. It was due to the prime defect of his lower nature, that he was capable of inducing Mary to play a part in the three-cornered flirtation.

  21. From this defect of gentlemen's not knowing how to dispose of their ready money, ariseth the high purchase of lands, which in all other countries is reckoned a sign of wealth.

  22. Tacitly Russell connived with Laird, and, had he meant to interfere, he was bound to warn Laird that the defect of the statute would no longer protect him, but he allowed the builders to go on till the ships were ready for sea.

  23. The English themselves hardly conceived that their mind was either economical, sharp, or direct; but the defect that most struck an American was its enormous waste in eccentricity.

  24. Whatever the defect might be, it was American; it belonged to the type; it lived in the blood.

  25. It had but one defect -- that of attainment.

  26. This truth also has the defect of being too true.

  27. All this seemed trivial to the true Darwinian, and to Sir Charles it was mere defect in the geological record.

  28. So that the effect which redoundeth to one man, by another mans defect of Right, is but so much diminution of impediments to the use of his own Right originall.

  29. Defect in the Understanding, is Ignorance; in Reasoning, Erroneous Opinion.

  30. Ignorance Of The Law Of Nature Excuseth No Man The source of every Crime, is some defect of the Understanding; or some errour in Reasoning, or some sudden force of the Passions.

  31. We have attempted to make up for this defect by adding to the charts a curve representing the clinical course (Fig.

  32. The chief defect of modern civilisation based on democracy is the difficulty of getting best men quickly enough.

  33. If I had to point out the capital defect in the attractive temperament of the American people, I should say it was a passion for short cuts.

  34. It is easier to excuse a thousand defects in the literary man who proceeds on this faith, than to forgive the one great defect of imitation in the purist who seeks only to be English.

  35. I have before said that his voice is harsh and breaking in his high tones, in his rage, but that this defect is of little consequence in such places.

  36. In spite of this defect he was a most valuable officer and deserves a high place in the annals of his country.

  37. But I had before discovered a defect which was beyond his control, that was very prejudicial to his usefulness in emergencies like the one just before us.

  38. But this tendency to exaggerate is merely the defect of his superabundant share of the vigorous Italian qualities.

  39. In the language of the clergy of the time, she "had a degree of unsettledness and defect of understanding.

  40. On a bitter day in March this wretched woman with the "defect of understanding" was to be dragged through the sea by a rope tied to the tail of a boat!

  41. It is the one important defect in the present Payne tariff.

  42. The defect lay in the lack of machinery for pooling resources in such a way as to relieve any institution that was in temporary straits.

  43. And yet there was some defect in his understanding by which he subjected himself to the accusation of atheism.

  44. They could have known nothing of the man, the main defect of whose character, in relation to everything, was in having too little of the element or principle of purpose.

  45. The main defect of the work was a lack of knowledge.

  46. If they join you, they will be faster and more useful friends than men who compensate for every defect by pledge-bolting at command.

  47. The main defect of the Bill is its omitting to deal with Trinity College.

  48. Although according to modern notions his ambition is to be reckoned a grave defect in his character, it seemed in his day a kingly quality.

  49. Pepin had both; but he had one defect which, though to us it may seem a trifle, to men who prized the body far more than soul or mind, was a serious matter.

  50. But the words just quoted, which may be compared with Mrs. Shelley's note to Prince Athanase, authorize our pointing out what he himself recognized as the defect of his theory.

  51. There was no defect of power in him, but a defect of patience; and the final word to be pronounced in estimating the larger bulk of his poetry is the word immature.

  52. Yet there appears to my mind a defect of accomplishment, rather than a deliberate intention, in the delineation of Orsino.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "defect" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abnormality; absence; affection; affliction; ailment; allergy; anachronism; apostatize; atrophy; backslide; betray; birthmark; blackhead; blemish; blight; blister; blot; bolt; break; bug; catch; check; cicatrix; complaint; complication; condition; crack; crater; craze; dearth; defalcation; default; defect; defection; deficiency; deficit; deformity; degenerate; desert; disability; disadvantage; discontinuity; disfigurement; disorder; distemper; distortion; drawback; endemic; failing; failure; fault; flaw; foible; frailty; freckle; gap; handicap; hiatus; hole; illness; imperfection; inadequacy; indisposition; infirmity; interval; kink; lack; lacuna; malady; malaise; mole; morbidity; need; nick; omission; pathology; pimple; pit; pock; privation; problem; pustule; rat; renegade; rift; scab; scar; scratch; secede; shortage; shortcoming; sickness; sign; snag; split; stain; switch; symptom; syndrome; taint; track; trouble; twist; vesicle; vice; wale; want; warp; wart; weakness; weal; welt; foible; frailty; freckle; gap; handicap; hiatus; hole; illness; imperfection; inadequacy; indisposition; infirmity; interval; kink; lack; lacuna; malady; malaise; mole; morbidity; need; nick; omission; pathology; pimple; pit; pock; privation; problem; pustule; rat; renegade; rift; scab; scar; scratch; secede; shortage; shortcoming; sickness; sign; snag; split; stain; switch; symptom; syndrome; taint; track; trouble; twist; vesicle; vice; wale; want; warp; wart; weakness; weal; welt